by Emily Crane at Daily Mail
A 61-year-old father who walked his journalist daughter down the aisle last year, three store workers and a retired magazine photo director are among the 10 victims who were gunned down in the Boulder grocery store massacre.
The victims were shot dead at the King Soopers outlet in Boulder on Monday afternoon when the gunman, since identified by police as 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, opened fire.
Those killed include: Rikki Olds, 25, Teri Leiker, 51, Denny Stong, 20, Neven Stanisic, 23, Tralona Bartkowiak, 49, Suzanne Fountain, 59, Kevin Mahoney, 61, Lynn Murray, 62, and Jody Waters, 65.
Boulder Police officer Eric Talley, 51, was also among those killed after he responded to the shooting.
California-based reporter Erika Mahoney posted a touching tribute to her father Kevin as she revealed he was among the victims of the massacre.
‘I am heartbroken to announce that my Dad, my hero, Kevin Mahoney, was killed in the King Soopers shooting in my hometown of Boulder, CO,’ she wrote alongside photo of him walking her down the aisle at her wedding last year in May.
‘My dad represents all things Love. I’m so thankful he could walk me down the aisle last summer. I am now pregnant. I know he wants me to be strong for his granddaughter. Thank you to the Boulder PD for being so kind through this painful tragedy.’
Kevin Mahoney’s journalist daughter Erika tweeted a touching photo of him walking her down the aisle for her wedding last year as she paid tribute to him. He is among the 10 people shot dead in the Boulder grocery store massacre on Monday
The family of Rikki Olds confirmed that she was among the 10 people killed at a King Soopers outlet in Boulder on Monday afternoon when the gunman opened fire
Lynn Murray, a mother-of-two, was a retired New York City magazine photo director who had worked for Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and Glamour before relocating to Colorado to raise her children.
Her family have revealed she was at the store at the time of the shooting to fill an Instacart order.
‘She was an amazing woman, probably the kindest person I’ve ever known,’ her husband John told the New York Times.
‘Our lives are ruined, our tomorrows are forever filled with a sorrow that is unimaginable. She was one of the greatest people you’d ever want to know: hard working, loving and compassionate, caring, went out of her way to make sure everyone else had a smile on their face.
‘I just want her to be remembered as just as this amazing, amazing comet spending 62 years flying across the sky.’
Rikki Olds, who worked at the store as an assistant front-end manager throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, had been employed there since graduating high school.
She was raised by her grandmother after her mother abandoned her and her siblings as a young child.
Suzanne Fountain was a licensed Medicare agent and financial counselor
Jody Waters, 65, (left) and Tralona Bartkowiak, 49, (right) were among those gunned down inside the store
Denny Stong, 20, Boulder Police officer Eric Talley, 51, and Neven Stanisic, 23, were also shot dead in the massacre
Olds hadn’t seen her grandmother in person until recently given the young woman was a frontline worker during the COVID-19 pandemic.
They saw each other again only after Olds’ grandmother was vaccinated.
The young woman’s family shared several tributes on social media as the grieving relatives called for the gunman to ‘burn in hell’.
‘We lost our beloved Rikki Olds to the monster who shot up the king soopers in Boulder CO yesterday may his rotten a** fry and burn in hell,’ her aunt Lori Olds said.
Teri Leiker, whose boyfriend also worked at the store but survived, had worked there for 30 years.
Leiker’s friend, Lexi Knutson, said the veteran employee loved working at the store.
‘She loved going to work and enjoyed everything about being there,’ Knutson told Reuters.
‘Her boyfriend and her had been good friends and began dating in the fall of 2019. He was working yesterday too. He is alive.’
Kevin Mahoney is pictured above with his family. He was among those gunned down in the store
Olds (pictured left with her boyfriend Jordan), who worked at the store as an assistant front-end manager throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, had been employed there since graduating high school.
Leiker, whose boyfriend also worked at the store but survived, had worked there for 30 years
Knuston said she believed Leiker’s job had come through a special needs work program.
Friends said Denny Stong, who was the youngest victim, was training to be a pilot. He also worked at the store where the shooting unfolded.
His Facebook profile photo has the caption:…